come downとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

come down (三人称単数 現在形 comes down, 現在分詞 coming down, 過去形 came down, 過去分詞 come down)

1. (intransitive) To descend, fall down, collapse.

   A tree came down and hit me on the head.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 45:9:

     Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698, page 46:

     No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.

   • 1995, “Goldfinger”, performed by Ash:

     I'm feeling so alive, feeling so real / On a stormy night, the rain is coming down / Rain like never before / I've got some records on, some bottles of wine / On a stormy night, the rain is lashing down / And I'm waiting for her.

2. (intransitive) To be demolished.

   The damage sustained in the fire is so great that the whole building will have to come down.

3. (intransitive) To decrease.

   Real estate prices have come down since the peak of the boom.

4. (intransitive) To reach a decision.

   I can't guess which way the board will come down on the project.

5. (intransitive) To be passed through time.

   Much wisdom has come down in the form of proverbs.

6. (intransitive, idiomatic) To return from an elevated state of consciousness or emotion.

   He finally came down from his post-bonus high.

   • 1995, Jarvis Cocker (lyrics), “Sorted For E’s and Wizz”, in Different Class, performed by Pulp:

     In the middle of the night, it feels alright / But then tomorrow morning / Ooh, ooh, then you come down

   • 2005 January 30, Drake Bennett, “Dr. Ecstasy”, in The New York Times‎^[1], ISSN 0362-4331:

     In 1967, a Shulgin compound called DOM enjoyed a brief vogue in Haight-Ashbury under the name STP, at doses several times larger than those at which Shulgin had found significant psychoactive effects, and emergency rooms saw a spike in the number of people coming in thinking they would never come down.

   • 2015 June 28, “It was 20 years ago today: the year British dance music went wild”, in The Observer‎^[2]:

     Britpop had revitalised rock, and an unprecedented explosion in dance music – sparked off by a second consecutive sunny and idyllic Glastonbury – transformed how Britain thought, listened, partied and came down afterwards.

7. (impersonal, UK) To rain.

   It's coming down heavily now.

8. (intransitive, UK) To graduate from university, especially an Oxbridge university.
   • 2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 24:

     Raju had got a job with a law firm in Singapore after coming down from Oxford.

9. Shortening of of come down the (pike, line, etc.) To be about to happen.

派生語

• come down on
• come down to
• come down with

語源

come +‎ down, from the verb phrase.

名詞

comedown (複数形 comedowns)

1. A sudden drop to a lower status, condition or level; a disappointment or letdown.
   • 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 28, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], OCLC 2603818:

     He had two subjects of conversation, the shame and come-down of being a tramp, and the best way of getting a free meal.

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty, New York: Bloomsbury, OCLC 1036692193:

     “So how are you getting on at UCL?” said Penny kindly, as if it must be a sorry comedown after Oxford.

2. A calm, mellow period experienced after the initial high from taking drugs.

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